dead-beatness rare.
[f. dead-beat a. or ppl. a. + -ness.]
1. The quality or property of being aperiodic.
| 1898 E. J. Houston Dict. Electr. Words (ed. 4) App. B. 737/1 Dead beatness, possessing the property of aperiodicity. 1918 K. Edgcumbe Industr. Electr. Measuring Instr. (ed. 2) 154 A most important feature of all moving coil instruments lies in their dead-beatness. |
2. Utter exhaustion.
| 1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness iii. v. 299 The light came streaming in at the window that in the dead-beatness of last night everyone had forgotten to close. |